About GODFALL:

When a massive asteroid hurtles toward Earth, humanity braces for annihilation—but the end doesn’t come. In fact, it isn’t an asteroid but a three-mile-tall alien that drops down, seemingly dead, outside Little Springs, Nebraska. Dubbed “the giant,” its arrival transforms the red-state farm town into a top-secret government research site and major metropolitan area, flooded with soldiers, scientists, bureaucrats, spies, criminals, conspiracy theorists—and a murderer.
 
 
Contributor Bio
Van Jensen is an acclaimed novelist, screenwriter, and comic book writer. Godfall, his debut novel, is in development as a TV series with Academy Award winner Ron Howard attached to direct. Jensen began his career as a newspaper crime reporter, then broke into comic books and graphic novels as the writer of ARCA (IDW), Two Dead (Gallery 13), and Tear Us Apart (Dark Horse). Jensen has written world-renowned characters, including Superman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Godzilla, and James Bond. He has served as a Comic Book Ambassador for the U.S. State Department, teaching refugee children to tell their stories through comics. He lives in Atlanta.
 
Kirkus Review:
In this debut novel, which bundles thriller, science fiction, and horror elements, a dead alien’s arrival in a Nebraska town coincides with a murder spree.
 
Once, Little Springs had a population of 731; as Sheriff David Blunt sees it, the town was “a time capsule sequestered from the rest of the world.” Everything changed with “landfall”—the down-from-the-sky arrival of a three-miles-long dead humanoid. Now Little Springs is a tourist attraction with a population of 100,000—a development that’s precipitated an uptick in both anxiety and crime. And the presence of the alien, which has been walled off from the public by the military, has attracted a cult to relocate to the town, and it’s now beholden to the giant. As the man running the newly erected army base tells David, the giant is “a gold mine, times infinity. Every foreign power on earth wants a piece of it. Every corporation. Everyone.” When there’s a fatal attack in Little Springs involving a bladed weapon—the killing is similar in method to one that occurred some weeks earlier—the FBI steps in and sidelines David, who just wants to do his job and solve the murders, which soon enough number more than two. Is the killer a local or a newcomer? Is this domestic terrorism? Do the killings have something to do with the giant? The book contains a few hokey moments (there’s at least one “sons of bitches” too many), but Jensen has masterly control of his narrative, which is impossible not to read as a parable about nativism, xenophobia, and fear of change. While readers who prefer non-speculative mysteries will find rewards here, especially through a plot thread involving a human visitor to Little Springs, the novel is hand-tooled for fans of slay-the-dragon sagas.
 
A spectacularly well-imagined dystopian fabl